The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-18

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defeat this amendment. To them those
United States revenue statistics, that you
find so toothsome, sound as an empty whis-
XIV barrel or dry beer key.
Suppose, Just for change, you read up
little on their annual meetings, listen to
their doIeful lamentations, and then offer
them these revenue reports for rood, and
they will tell you they are as empty ofmeat
IN them as blasted nut. And don't you
see besides that in reporting Iowa at $1,000
0OO I'D TO June 49, 1886, you include the IL
censes issued before the law had practical
operations. In that S25O0,000 Is the money
Maid by the Sioux City saloon mcn-l mean
the men who are charged with numbering
Uaddock. but though Uncle Sam has the
revcnue all right-where are the saloons to-
dayi And in the S20s,0OO from Kansas Is
the amount paid by the 2I6 saloons from
Lcavenworth and the saloons which lined
both sides of the main street of Topeka
five miles long. But where are the saloons
to-day, and where are the saloon mem
SO when you ask "wlat have the States
which adopted the prohibitory laws secured
as COMPENSATION lDuS uSllhiOh VI 'ho
question, with all of its paralyzing divis-
ions and discussions!" | have notion to
tell YOU. Your questions will he forwarded
20 the governors of these States, but while
waiting for fresh answer to your rather
ill.advised criticism of their internal affairs
YOU must be content with the following,
which is nearly fresh. Gov. Martin, of
l.,
year, mark you, thus answers your ques-
ton:
"a great reform has certainly been ac-
.complished In Kansas. lntemperance is
steadily and surely decreasing. In thou
sands of homes where want and wretched-
ness and suffering were once familiar
guests. plenty, happiness and contentment
now abide Thousands of wives and chill
dren are better clothed and fed than they
were when the saloons absorbed all the
earnings of the husbands and fathers. The
marvellous material growth of the State
during the past six years has been accom-
panied by an equally marvellous moral pro-
gress, and IL can be fairly and truthiully as
serted that in no portion of the civilized
world can million and half of people be
found who are more temperate than the
people of Kansas.
There is not an observing man in the
form has been accomplished In Kansas by
prohibition. There Is not truthful man In
the State who will not frankly acknowledge
this fact, no matter what his opinions
touching the policy of prohibition may have
been.
The public sentiment of Kansas is over
whemingy against the liquor traffic. Thou
sands of men who a fewyears ago opposed
prohibition, or doubted whether it was the
best method of dealing with the liquor trat-
fc have seen and frankly acknowledge its
beneficial results and practical success.
The temptations with which the open sa-
loon allured the youth of { e land to dis
grIce and destruction; the appetite for liq-
uor bred aud matured within It's walls by
the treating custom; the vice, crime, power
ty, sugering and sorrow OF which II is al
ways the fruitful source, all these evil re.
suits of the open saloon have been abol-
ished in nearly every city and town in Kan
sas"
Here Is message from Iowa:
DIES MONIES, Iowa, April Ex-Governor
Larrabee has written 4 letter In reply to an
inquiry from the secretary of the central
committee of the prohibitory campaign OF
Texas in regard TO the workings OF prohibit
ton In Iowa. The governor says that In
eighty out oil the ninety-nine counties OF
the state prohibition Is enforced, and IN the
remaining nineteen counties II is partly en-
forced: that no property has been depre-
ciated by its enforcement as saloons make
room for better and more legitimate 5usi-
ness: that the enforcement of the law has
had no noticeable effect upon the popula-
ton beyond causing the removal from the
state of some incurable consumers. The
effects of prohibition upon the general well
fare and habits of the people, he says, are
decidedly wholesome. The prohibition sem
iimentfs on the increase, and there is no
doubt that prohibition Is an established
power In Iowa.
We also append the following telegram
from the commissioner of labor statistics:
DIES MONIES, Iowa, March Ex-Governor
and encouragement both say prohibition
has constantly improved the moral. social
and financial condition OF Iowa, and Is sue
cessfully enforced in eighty-iive ofIhe nine
ty-nine counties, also growing rapidly in
the remainder. Il. II. HUTCHINs.
On February 3, 1857, Governor Larrabec
also said;
81 find in the cities and counties where
the prohibtory law is well enforced, crime
and police expenses fall of wonderfully.
Not a saloon is open in this, the largest city
in the state. The sheriff Of this county told
me few days since that he had spoiled his
business by enforcing the law. lie also
stated that he was glad oft. Several of the
judges have recently told me that there was
n marked falling of In criminal business In
their courts In consequence OF the enforce.
ment Of the law. There are several judicial
districts without single open saloon. II
our courts and sheriffs and constables would
do their duty properly. the saloons would
soon be completely driven out"
And here is one from Rhode Island:
Hon. George p. Wetmore, governor of
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